Process and apparatus for producing (cigarette) packs

US6606840B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Focke · Verden, DE
• Hans-Jurgen Bretthauer · Bremen, DE
• Henry Buse · Rotenburg (Wümme), DE
• Hermann Blome · Thedinghausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 10, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 19, 2003
• Expiry date: Jan 10, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B61/18
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In order to produce (cigarette) packs with an (inner) wrapper made of heat-sealable sheet material and with folding tabs which are connected to one another by sealing, first of all a cigarette group (11) is enclosed by a wrapper blank and. following completion of the necessary folding operations, is fed to a sealing turret (48). In the region of the latter, folding tabs on sideways directed side walls and on radially outwardly directed end walls of the folded wrapper are sealed.